The so-called "defense wins the championship", the foundation and core of the playoffs is defense, and the basis of defense is alignment, so there is also a saying in the playoffs that "all about match up (everything is in alignment)".
First to the top, then talk about the others. And the super giant's ability is to make all the alignments become misplaced, and from this point of view, the playoffs will be much clearer.
Not much nonsense, just guess.
Suns 4-1 Clippers
Even if I lost the game against the Timberwolves because of some of The On-The-Walled Changes, I still think the Clippers can beat the Pelicans to make the playoffs.
First of all, because they are at home, they have played a total of 10 play-off games last year and this year, with 9 wins and 1 loss at home, except for last year's Grizzlies playing warriors, and the home advantage is obvious.
Secondly, the Clippers have better defensive resources, they have fronts like Batum, Covington and Morris Jr. going to Ingram, and on the guard line have George and Mann going to CJ. Coach Lou should use Zubac less, because he can't defend against Varan's personal attack or the blocking of the outside.
Whether to use Hatten or a small lineup can be determined by Hatten's presence. At the same time, the Clippers can use more blocks to attack Varan, and if Varan is beaten, the Pelicans are forced to change smaller, and the Clippers have a great chance of winning, because the Pelicans' three-point difference is too bad.
If the Suns met the Clippers in the first round, it was a remake of last year's Western Conference Finals. The two sides haven't even changed much, the Suns just added two interior lines and Shamet, and the Clippers didn't have Leonard either, but they lost Beverley, but Covington added to the front, Powell more on the outside and a Hardern on the inside.
The two teams were able to match last year, so the Clippers took two wins off the Suns and remain so this year. But after a round of baptism in the playoffs last year, George played what may have been the best form in the playoffs of his career, and it is not known whether he can come up with that state again this year, if he can, the Clippers and the Suns have a dozen.
But according to the overall performance of George's career playoffs, the ups and downs are the norm. At the same time, the Suns' run-in is better than last year, Booker and Bridges are better than last year, Ayton can go deeper under the basket without the ball after changing the defense, and the ability to receive outside passes to punish misalignment is also stronger.
Under this and the other, guess the Suns 4-1 Clippers.
Grizzlies 4-2 Timberwolves
The two teams drew 2-2 in the regular season, and in fact they were a bit alike.
They are all young and jumpy teams, with defensive gates on the outside, Timberwolves with Beverley, Grizzlies with Dillon and Bane, and the fourth position with fierce madmen Van der Biao and Little Jackson, and both have strong enough impact on the offensive end.
So the two sides started right, the Timberwolves could let Beverley go to Morant — Beverley was first sent to the Grizzlies by the Clippers, he quickly posted the Grizzlies training slogan on social media, but then was sent to the Timberwolves, so his emotional reference to playing the Clippers.
Hanako went to Dillon, Russell to Bane, Van der Biao to Jackson Jr., downs to Adams, so that Russell could be hidden as much as possible.
The Grizzlies in turn wanted to hide Morant, so Dillon Bain against Russell and Hanako, the number four or five positions remained unchanged, and Beverley handed it over to Morant.
At this point, it depends on which side's core guard is exposed more fiercely, and the Grizzlies' advantage lies in stronger defensive pressure, more refined rotational defense, and the firepower of the bench.
If it still doesn't work, the Grizzlies can even go directly to Morant and put up a small lineup of Dillon + Bain + Sledgehammer + Clark + Jackson Jr., and the Timberwolves will not be easy to find flaws, and the Timberwolves will not find a replacement for Russell.
So it was good that the two sides could play back and forth, but in the end the Grizzlies won 4-2.
Warriors 4-2 Nuggets
Shams said that as long as Curry is not in serious trouble after today's team training, Curry will play in G1 against the Nuggets, when the Nuggets will face a full-body Warriors.
The Nuggets have been saying from the end of March that Murray and Porter Jr. may come back, and the recovery has not come out today, which is basically impossible.
So about teacher, you have to work hard to go up alone.
The Warriors' weak interior line is well known, and It seems that Teacher Yo will have an absolute advantage on the inside line, but when Looney and Green are fighting at the wheel, Teacher Yo may not be able to crush it. And the Nuggets' projection level on the outside will cause the Warriors to shrink in a large area, and the teacher will be surrounded by Warriors players.
In turn, the Nuggets must have About teachers present, so how to defend the Warriors' blocking and positioning cover has become a big problem.
Therefore, the game may become a mutual explosion, depending on whether the teacher chisels through the warrior's inner line first, or the warrior's outside line kills the teacher first.
Due to the unreliability of the Nuggets' outside line, and the Warriors have "splash tea", the former is significantly more difficult than the latter, so the Warriors win. The Nuggets can score two points out of respect for the MVP level about the teacher.
Lone Ranger 4-2 Jazz
This group is the hardest to guess, because Doncic's current injury is difficult to determine, but G1 certainly can't play, and G2 may not be able to play.
Doncic is the whole reason why the Lone Ranger has been able to move up to the fourth position in the West, and although Doncic is not there, Bronson and Dinwiddie can also drive the Lone Ranger's system, the ceiling is far from Doncic.
Doncic has missed 17 games this season, and the Lone Ranger, with a 47% win rate, looks like it's OK. But he played 65 games with 44 wins and 21 losses, a winning percentage of 67.6%, more than 20 percentage points higher.
There was no Doncic in the Christmas war, although the Lone Ranger has always been within the range of seemingly traceable, but due to the lack of a hammer and a finalizer, it has never been able to catch up, and the last 4 points have been lost.
What is jazz's problem?
The offensive end relies too much on three points, resulting in the overall offense being very uncomfortable. No one can fight if they can throw in, and no one who can't shoot in can't beat them.
The second is the problem of Gobert's defense, Doncic is not there, and the Lone Ranger lacks the best candidate for military training Gobert.
If Doncic is there, the Lone Ranger puts up a set of Bronson + Dinwiddie + Doncic + Electric Fan + Kleber's five-point lineup, five people can shoot three points, Gobert on the defensive end is difficult to choose who to follow, and Gobert has no ability to punish misplaced on the offensive end.
The final outcome is that Gobert will not be able to do it at all, and can only see if Mitchell can solve it, and the Jazz are back in the cycle of previous years.
How many Games the Jazz can win depends on when Doncic comes back and in what state.
Considering that Doncic may not be able to play in the first two games, guessing 4-2 is not too much, right?
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